Fear Is the Stranger Here

I am at home. Fear is the stranger here. When thoughts of fear enter my mind

today, let me recognize that they are the stranger, the interloper,

and that I am the one who is at home - not fear. Fear does not belong I do not need to

accept it in my mind. But let me not fight against it; let me look on my own

thoughts of fear with compassion and understanding recognizing them as merely a mistake,

and not a sin. There is no guilt in feeling fear, or there need not be.

I can step back from these thoughts, step back into my self, and see them as

the illusions that they are. I can look upon myself with love. And from this same